Teammates react to Jason Verrett's Achilles injury

In the game of football, injuries are going to happen. When one happens to a player like Jason Verrett, who has seemingly been rehabbing his entire career, you can’t help but feel for him. Yesterday on the team’s website, the Chargers shared quotes from how some of his teammates reacted to the news of his torn Achilles.

Starting linebacker Denzel Perryman: “I missed half the season last year, and he missed the whole one, and we went through the rehab phase together. So to see him go down, it was devastating. It was sad. It was a comeback season for the both of us, so this hurts my heart. But he’s in my prayers and his family is in my prayers. I just wish him a speedy recovery.”

Star wide receiver Keenan Allen, who has battled through injury himself: “I’m very emotional over it. It’s hard to watch him go down like that after he worked so hard to come back this season. I know how tough it is. I’m just sending him prayers.”

One of Verrett’s closest friends on the team, Jahleel Addae: “This hurts. I saw what he went through to bounce back from his knee. I saw his loyalty and his dedication to the game, his family and to his craft. To see it happen like that in a conditioning test, I love him like a brother, so to see him go down with a freak injury, it’s tough. But we’ll be praying for him and we’ll be out there for him. Jason will bounce back, so we as a team have to come together. It’s next man up. That’s a big piece we lost as a group, but the next man up is more than capable of the job. We’ll keep it moving.”

You can tell Verrett means a lot to his teammates, and not just on a football level. It really will need to be “next man up.” Trevor Williams will have to continue to improve if this team wants to go where everyone thinks it’ll go.

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